Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?
On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:21 am, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
> > I would boot a Linux Live CD like knoppix, partition and format the new
> > drive, copy everything from the old drive to the new one, chroot into the
> > "new" system, install a boot loader, reboot and be happy.
> > That is a lot easier then installation from scratch and you can keep
> > everything installed and configured so far.
>
> This sounds like the least amount of work and still giving a good
> result - I'll give it a go.
>
> Off to read about chroot .
I'm not sure why you should need to bother with booting a live CD. I've done
this lots of times. Put the new drive in, boot the existing installation,
partition and format the new drive from the existing installation, mount its
partitions somewhere temporarily, cp -a the stuff over as appropriate, edit
its bootloader config and fstab as appropriate, chroot into it and
run /sbin/lilo then reboot, and presto. You only need a rescue CD if you
screw something up. (Which I've certainly done, yes, so keep that CD in your
back pocket. :)
You might want to look at this:
http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
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